Overview/features

The A16AR was originally the sole recipient of direct Linux support from AVerMedia. However, their support is very limited at best (binary drivers, listed as beta, and which apply only for Fedora 3 and 4, Mandriva 2006, and SUSE 10.0).

Note above output from lspci shows the card NOT being properly/automagically detected/recognized! ... it would be nice if someone could provide the output from lspci where it shows the card being properly detected

Making it work

Drivers

If you're using a kernel >2.6.19 and the card is not automagically detected

If the card is not automagically detected, when you run "dmesg | grep saa" you you will see:

In this case, you will need to arrange for the parameter 'card=99' to be passed to the kernel driver.
If the driver was built as a kernel module, and if you want to test this parameter once without making any permanent change to your system, do the following steps. Type:

sudo rmmod saa7134_alsa saa7134-dvb saa7134

Note: For all those who do not know what sudo is, it is used to elevate one's self to root user. rmmod removes loaded modules from memory.

If you can't remove the running modules from memory (which will likely happen because saa7134 will be used by any mixers and artsd)